Six Hundred and Forty. The Money-Spending Boy Hornets

As for reporters, they can ask questions if they have them, and they can also create questions if they don’t have them. If they really can’t ask them, they will ask the same question in different ways.

They hope to ask the players who are popular until they get annoyed and angry, so that they can have more topics to stir up.

Look, Sun Ce got angry, and the reporters were satisfied...

After getting angry and leaving, Sun Ce hid at the entrance of the passage and secretly watched the reporters who were talking and laughing in the interview room. He felt that these people really had problems with their brains. They seemed to be quite happy to be yelled at.

After the pre-match interview, at 3:30 in the afternoon, Sun Ce participated in the team’s pre-match warm-up.

During the warm-up, Coach Hollins was talking about tactics next to him. The Grizzlies were almost unprepared for the game against the Hornets, and few people listened, but Coach Hollins still talked.

The Hornets sent Paul away last summer to start reconstruction, which was actually beyond the expectations of many teams.

Just like the Nuggets trading away Anthony, it came very suddenly.

Young superstars like Paul and Anthony are actually difficult to trade. They are basically the kind that have a price but no market.

Of course, any team that has the chance to get them will definitely want them.

It's just that both of them are too expensive. Strong teams either don't have space or don't have good bargaining chips. It's unlikely to exchange their core for the core of another team.

And weak teams can hardly come up with bargaining chips that will satisfy their parent teams.

So when the news came out that Anthony and Paul wanted to change teams, most teams thought that it would take at least one or two years of soap opera. When their relationship with their parent teams became extremely bad, some teams bought them at a low price.

This is the usual routine for superstar players with long-term contracts to change teams after the free agent market was opened in the history of the NBA.

It's rare for a team like the Knicks to have been rotten for many years, have a large number of high-quality contracts in hand, and have never selected even one player who can be the core of the team.

It's even rarer for the Hornets to send away a superstar who has only played for five years and use the players traded back as bargaining chips to clear the salary space. It's almost like sending away the garbage contract and Paul in a package.

The Hornets have played 26 games, the same as the Grizzlies, and just ended a 9-game losing streak with a record of 6 wins and 20 losses. Except for the Timberwolves with 4 wins and 21 losses, there is no team with a worse record than the Hornets.

Sun Ce and his teammates were both tired.

Although they didn't talk to each other, they really didn't have the heart to listen to the tactical arrangements.

This team is too unfamiliar!

Not only are there a lot of player changes, but many of the opposing players are unfamiliar. Even some of the Hornets' 10-day short-term contract players from the last match against the Hornets have been replaced.

Sun Ce didn't listen to Coach Hollins's arrangement. He looked at the scout report and found that the opponent actually sent Marcus Thornton, a talented scorer who averaged 5 points per game in the same rookie year as Sun Ce, to the Kings in exchange for Carl Landry. The purpose was to give Peja's big contract to the Kings... This operation is simply fascinating!

The Trail Blazers also dumped Jack to the Hornets, and signed Patrick Ewing, Ewing's son, who was also named DJ Mbenga, the backup center of the Lakers last year.

Darren Collison, who was in the same class as Sun Ce, was originally regarded as the future core of the Hornets after Paul left, but was sent to the Pacers by the Hornets to package the contract.

Now the total salary of the Hornets has dropped to 30.33 million US dollars...

Just looking at the names of the Hornets players, it is really not exciting at all.

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At 5:58 in the evening, Sun Ce and his starting teammates appeared on the court. Today, Gasol took a rest to prepare for the Christmas game, and Jordan went up to play the starting center. Conley was also put on the bench to reduce the pressure of playing time.

Unlike the original time and space, which required Conley to play more and forced him to improve, the current Grizzlies hope that Conley can maintain his form. It is enough to play a stable performance as a combo guard and second point guard.

The Grizzlies sent out Sun Ce, Tony Allen, Battier, Randolph, and Jordan.

On the Hornets side, the starting lineup of Jack, Belinelli, Quincy Pondexter, the 26th pick in the first round of this season, David West, and Okafor appeared.

Seeing that the opponent's starting lineup was worse than the last time they played, Sun Ce felt that the opponent had done everything to save money.

At six o'clock in the evening, the referee blew the whistle to start the game. Jordan easily defeated Okafor and won the jump ball. Sun Ce received the ball and advanced to the front court, intending to score first.

But after approaching the three-point line, seeing the opponent's defense, Sun Ce wanted to curse.

The opponent was obviously preparing to intercept on the upper line!

David West and Okafor under the basket didn't even have the tendency of Karandov and Jordan, just standing there. This defensive position was obviously to block the breakthrough and expand the defense.

Sun Ce pulled back a step and broke through on the right!

Jack's defense is pretty good. He is also a player who plays as an outside core player on both offense and defense but lacks ability. However, unlike most players of this type, he has a clear understanding of himself and knows how to play to his strengths, such as being big and good at confrontation.

When Sun Ce broke through, Jack came up, and then Jordan came up to block Jack, and Sun Ce rushed from the right side of the top arc... David West and Jack double-teamed Sun Ce, and Sun Ce saw Okafor under the basket also moving to the right side of the three-second zone...

The defensive tendency is too obvious!

Sun Ce threw the ball to the middle, Jordan cut in after the pick-and-roll, took a step inside the free throw line, caught the ball in the air and slid into the basket, dunked the ball into the basket with one hand.

Sun Ce saw the opponent's defense at once, it seemed that he was very targeted at entering the inside, but it was just right, his physical condition was average today.

Sun Ce's physical strength has actually recovered well, after all, he is a young man in his 20s, but back-to-back is inevitably affected, as long as he can help the team score, no matter who scores.

Offense and defense transition, the Hornets attack.

The Hornets' starting offense is hard to describe. Currently, the Hornets average 9 points per game, the only team in the league that averages less than 90 points per game.

It was actually okay at the beginning, but it was close to the middle of the season, and the few old players who stayed in the team had no motivation to cooperate. David West took a step back and jumped after receiving the ball, but it missed.

When David West stepped back to shoot, Sun Ce went to the basket to grab the rebound, but before he could get in, he was blocked by Okafor and Pondset!

These two helped Jordan block Sun Ce!

And this was not an accident! This continued for many rounds!

Sun Ce could pass the ball on offense, but he couldn't score in the paint. On defense, the Hornets would rather let other Grizzlies players get the rebound than give Sun Ce a chance to get the rebound!

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